passage from text: Not contaminated by holding to other and self, Natural presence arises on its own. This is the great power assembly that benefits others. All samsara and nirvana are pure in this single mandala. Holding to ground,path and result subsides.

passage from text: By understanding the effects of good and bad actions,whatever their importance, May I be able to keep to the workings of seed and result. By seeing clearly the suffering in the three realms of samsara, May I develop the renunciation to leave samsara’s domain.

passage from article: A student asked Dezhung Rinpoche about visualization practice and deity meditation. Dezhung Rinpoche closed his eyes, scrunched his forehead, bobbed his head up and down as if he were concentrating very hard and said, “You visualize the head of the deity, then you visualize all those arms, then you visualize the implements, then the palace, then you try to see the whole deity clearly, but you lose one part, so you go back to visualize that… And it’s all gone. You start again, and the same thing happens, again, and again.” Then he opened his eyes wide, looked right at the student, smiled, and said, “And then you have a headache!”

Description of protectors and commentary on related text, importance of moderation in protector practices, connection between the three roots (guru, deity, and protector) and the three marks of existence (suffering, non-self, impermanence), questions on above

Practice questions regarding pride and compassion, the three classes of deities: peaceful, semi-wrathful, wrathful, review of Tsulak Trengwa’s poem How I Live The Practice (text available on website) which describes the flavor of deity practice, questions regarding deity practice